Lov-Lov (2017-2023) explores how technology is changing human relationships, reshaping our humanity, and what it means to be human. This absurd yet poetic interdisciplinary project delves into the significance of humanity in the age of artificial intelligence. As humanity foots the bill for its ever-expanding greed and insatiable desires, morality is continuously challenged and evaded, leading to collective ignorance and denial. Technological advancement continues to progress under the guise of efficiency and convenience. Automation technology is filled with potential, while also sparking unprecedented concerns. The world's best chess players are no longer human, prompting the question, "What does it mean if the best lovers and life partners are no longer human?"

 

Lov-Lov（2017-2023）探讨了科技如何改变人类关系、重塑我们的人性以及人类意味着什么。

这个荒谬但充满诗意的跨学科项目探索了人类在人工智能时代的意义。随着人类为不断膨胀的贪婪和无尽的欲望买单，道德不断受到挑战和回避，导致集体的无知和否认。技术的不断进步在效率和便利的幌子下不断推进。自动化技术充满了潜力，同时也引发了前所未有的关切。世界上最优秀的象棋选手不再是人类，“如果最好的情人和生活伴侣也不再是人类，那意味着什么？”

 

 

The 6-channel video You Need To Be Careful With Me: I Fall In Love And I Fall In Love Forever (2019) simulates an engaging commercial television advertisement. Using appropriated footage and images from movies and the internet in combination with dynamic commercial language, the artist introduces the audience to an all-new AI lover. While the video resembles a public service announcement, the world it presents appears dystopian. The seemingly affectionate title is suggestive of a double entendre as the word “forever” may be implying non-human. In Lov-Lov’s world, consumers can freely download the appearance, voice, behavior, memory, wisdom, and even humor of any human in history, such that they may maximize their happiness and satisfaction.

这部名为《你得小心点儿：我爱上了你，我将永远爱下去》（2019）的六通道视频模拟了一则引人入胜的商业电视广告。艺术家利用电影和互联网中的抓取素材与动态商业用语相结合，向观众介绍了一款全新的人工智能情人。尽管视频看起来像是一则公益广告，但其呈现的世界却显得反乌托邦。表面上亲切的标题可能具有双关含义，因为“永远”这个词可能在暗示非人类。在Lov-Lov的世界里，消费者可以自由下载任何历史上人类的外表、声音、行为、记忆、智慧，甚至幽默，以便他们最大化地享受幸福和满足。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today, our emotional makeup and our tapestry of needs are different from those of past generations. In fact, love is becoming increasingly selfish. Vanity and the pursuit of unrealistic shallowness have already brought pain to many of us. Modern individuals are seeking shortcuts from various aspects of life, leading to a disarray that results in anxiety, unease, aversion to rejection, and fear of judgment. This has prompted many to gravitate towards new ideal relationships and lifestyles that involve non-human service providers.

今天，我们的情感构成和需求格局与以往时代的人们不同。事实上，爱情变得越来越自私。虚荣和对不切实际的肤浅的追求已经给我们许多人带来了痛苦，现代人正在从生活的各个层面寻找捷径，这种失调导致焦虑、不安、厌恶被拒绝、被评判，让许多人更加倾情于非人类提供服务的新型理想关系和生活。

 

 

 

If artificial intelligence were indistinguishable from humans in appearance and manufactured according to exact customer specifications, people could choose any individual from a vast database as a model and freely download that individual's personality, appearance, voice, habits, memories, thinking abilities, and moral beliefs. This would inevitably see unprecedented development and implementation with astonishing accuracy and precision, much like the ever-improving pixel count in cameras. Humans would gain access, through simple financial transactions, to the most elusive human freedom: liberation from others, their weaknesses, preferences, and any uncompromising independence.

People would be endowed with absolute autocracy over their personal experiences, realities, and communities. This new power to rid oneself of insecurity and fully control one's life and relationships maximizes happiness. Social relationships become downloadable, replicable, rewritable, and optimized. Once custom, technology-driven relationships are widely accepted in society, they not only completely eliminate people's dependence on other humans and interpersonal relationships but also overturn our definitions of identity, emotions, community, and morality.

The relentless expansion of the desire to "acquire" and the diminishing interest in "giving" would ultimately become everyone's reality.

Special mind-altering medication.

A pharmacy that showcases the greatest satisfaction possible, allowing humans to alter their sense of reality; in a sense, an individualized shortcut to wide-scale social engineering which will help humans quickly purchase feelings they have deeply longed for but have trouble retaining such as love, respect, care, friendship, trust, gratitude, intimacy, and sense of connectedness.

 

特殊的意识改变药物。

一家展示着最大满足度的药房，让人类可以改变他们对现实的感知；从某种意义上说，这是一种个性化的快捷方式，可以进行大规模的社会工程，帮助人类迅速购买他们深切渴望但难以保持的感受，如爱、尊重、关怀、友谊、信任、感激、亲密和归属感。

 

Using paradoxical concepts and humorous language, Lov-Lov comments on the direction of our political, cultural, and social development， discusses the influence of reality on how we perceive general humanity and the unease we share as a collective. The artist hopes that the pressure of living in the technological era will urge us to reconsider what it means to be human.

 

 

Lov-Lov以悖论性概念和幽默语言评论了政治、文化和社会，探讨了现实对我们如何看待普遍人性以及我们作为集体分享的不安的影响。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(A book written by an AI author)

The Human Element And Why We Don’t Need It.

 

Second To None- You can Trust Me (2019) is the slogan for Lin’s 2020 Presidential Election project, in which she encourages voters to opt for a socially responsible AI president.

Lin’s cubic projection installation A New Dawn For America (2019) introduces, for the first time in history, an AI presidential candidate. Cast through five projections atop a single white cube, the video delivers a passionate and detailed speech given by the AI candidate. The candidate tackles the most sensitive and complex of social issues and demonstrates its ability as a future leader with daring vision. While AI surpasses humans in logical reasoning, information processing, and making intelligent decisions, it is also untethered from biological and personality flaws, and incapable of personal scandals and political tyranny. It is the most reliable and trustworthy candidate in terms of fulfilling public service and civil obligations, and it satisfies the selection criteria of most voters.

 

Installation for 2020 Presidential election campaign for the first AI presidential candidate 

 

Title: You Can Trust Me

 

Starting from promoting a 2020 AI Presidential election campaign, the whole idea is first to create a socially responsible AI that can replace any human leader in the political sphere, then to eventually replace all representatives, institutions and soft infrastructure of government with robots.

 

 

Can humans coexist indeed peacefully with the hyper-intelligent machines they create? 

 

Can machines be more rational or reliable than humans?

 

Rather than enduring the endless political scandals of each election cycle, the voting public can select an ethically and morally consistent robot that will be reliable and trustworthy in discharging its civic duties and executing the will of the voting public. 

 

Can AI evolve into higher quality species than humans?

This absurd 2020 election campaign also probes our insecurities and exhaustion from the social obligations, using the proposal of complete displacement of the individual human for a simulacrum as a means to question how our current political reality is impacting our sense of what human collectivity is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

About Lov-Lov: Lov-Lov is a fabricated future company.

Lov-Lov aims to “allow anyone to escape the threat of insecurities and take full control over their lives…” With this newfound power, human will be able to constantly adjust and reset their rights and needs thus “maximizing their satisfaction”. 

 

 

Social needs and group dynamics will no longer based on the requirements of a cooperative society, but on the individual’s selfish desires and goals.

In Lov-Lov’s world, people live trouble free and fully-pleased in their relationships as they socialize with intelligent, perceptive, cogent robots that satisfy all their needs for affiliation, intimacy and social integration.

 

Lov-Lov perfect society will allow anyone to escape the threat of insecurities and take full control over their own lives and interpersonal relationships. With this newfound power, human beings will be able to constantly adjust and reset their rights and needs in their social groups, thus maximizing their happiness.